A memorial service for Mr. Arne Thorleif Fliflet will be held Monday, November 15, 2004 at 10 AM at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church, Aiken, SC, with the Reverend Leon Mozeliak officiating. Inurnment will follow in the church cemetery. At Arne?s request, members of the Aiken Lions Club are asked to serve as honorary pallbearers and be at the church by 9:30 on Monday. Mr. Fliflet, 88, of Aiken, SC, husband of the late Effie Clarice Woolsey Fliflet, died Saturday, November 6, 2004 at his home. Born October 13, 1916, in Brooklyn, NY, his parents Thorleif and Magna Seel Fliflet were born in Norway and immigrated to America in the early 1900?s. The family moved to Mountain Lakes, NJ in 1924 where Arne received his public school education and graduated from Duke University in 1939. During World War II he was employed in a clerical position at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C. In 1945 he joined the Diplomatic and Consular Service of the U.S. Department of State from which he retired in 1968. He served at American Embassies and Consulates in England, Scotland, South Africa, Norway, Canada, and Sierra Leone. In the early seventies he lived in the low country of South Carolina while working in real estate. Arne moved to Aiken for permanent residence in 1976 where he lived and worked at the Woolsey family cattle farm known as Breeze Hill Plantation. Arne was a very active member of the Aiken Lions Club where he had held several offices and was elected Lion of the Year in 1982. He was also a member of the Senior Men?s Club and the Academy for Lifelong Learning and St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church. He was a servant to his community having participated in Meals on Wheels, Habitat for Humanity and the Aiken Literacy Council. Arne was very proud of his Norwegian heritage and still has many living relatives in Norway. Sons, Arne Woolsey Fliflet and wife, Deborah, Alexandria, VA and Charles Reidar Fliflet and wife Elizabeth Huber, Aiken, SC; daughter, Katharine Elise Fliflet-Mirkin and husband, Andrew, Carpinteria, CA; sister, Marianne Fliflet Wilson, Mountain Lakes, NJ; a dear friend, Marilyn Rogell, Aiken, SC and eight grandchildren survive. At his request please make memorials in memory of Arne to the South Carolina Lions Sight Conservation Association, 110 Medical Circle, West Columbia, SC 29169 or St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church, 129 Pendleton St., SW, Aiken, SC 29801.